Description of Tool:

Socrative is a tool that allows teachers to create personalized assessments for their classes. They can be structured assessments, quick questions or exit tickets. Teachers create the assessments, students access them through a course code, and teachers receive real-time feedback. Some of the features of this tool include:

  • Multiple question types available

  • Instant feedback can be viewed as a class or by individual students

  • Easy access to assessments from a teacher dashboard page

  • Assessments can be shared with other teachers or the Socrative community

  • Assessments can be gamified through the "space race" mode


Resources:


Quick Start Guide for Using Socrative for Formative Assessments



The Socrative User Guide


Need some ideas to get started? Check out:

13 Ways to Use Socrative as Formative Assessment at The Landscape of Learning Blog



Group Work:

After reviewing the above resources individually, choose one of your group member's assessments to adapt using this platform. When considering which to adapt. think about the goals of the activity (what are the students learning, what skill/idea are you assessing, what will you do with the data from this activity once it is collected) and try to choose the one that best aligns with this particular tools. When you are done creating the lesson, post a link to it on the "further application" page & complete the formative assessment below.


Formative Feedback: